So far, so good. Wales built on their draw in Croatia by claiming their first Euro 2024 qualifying win courtesy of Kieffer Moore’s first-half header against Latvia.
This was Wales’s first game in Cardiff since their group-stage exit at the World Cup and a sold-out crowd gave Gareth Bale, the most-capped Wales male player and surely the greatest in their history, a fitting send-off. The Latvia head coach, Dainis Kazakevics, went on the charm offensive in the buildup, talking up Wales’s chances of topping Group D, but this display offered only a smattering of those credentials.
